Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Regional Sales Director role sits squarely in the enterprise SaaS playbook, where recurring revenue and retention depend on disciplined territory strategy and executive-level selling. With CrowdStrike positioned as a cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform, the Alpine region focus signals a market where regulated industries and complex buying committees are common, making regional leadership a meaningful lever for predictable growth.
For a SaaS sales leader, the career value here is the chance to operate at the layer where pipeline mechanics, forecasting hygiene, and multi-function alignment become operational systems rather than ad hoc efforts. The remit touches the core SaaS competencies that travel well across categories: building repeatable field motions, shaping account strategy, and translating corporate direction into regional execution while partnering closely with Sales Ops, Marketing, Channel, and technical teams.
The role is best suited to someone who prefers management responsibility over individual contribution and enjoys coaching experienced sellers while staying close to key deals. It will fit professionals who are comfortable balancing autonomy with structured cadence, and who want their next step to deepen expertise in regional leadership within a subscription software model, particularly in security-oriented enterprise environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.
About the Role:
As a key member of the Central European Field Sales Leadership team and as a Regional Sales Director for the Alpine region, you will be accountable for providing leadership and management oversight to Regional Sales Managers within the Alpine region to drive all pertinent issues related to sales strategy and goal attainment.
What You’ll Do:
Participating in strategic planning sessions with the sales management team on a quarterly and annual basis.
Communicating corporate strategy to employees within the Alpine region.
Planning and directing activities including sales pipeline generation, forecasting, customer relationship development and satisfaction.
Establishing short-term and long-term goals, metrics and quotas in line with corporate and regional objectives.
Identify and enable needed resources for supporting the Alpine sales strategy.
Identify and qualify important sales opportunities within the Alpine region at the management level.
Act as coach, mentor and educator to all Regional Sales Managers within the Alpine region.
Select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure sales goals are met.
Keep senior leadership informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected business results.
What You’ll Need:
Proven experience with, knowledge of, and network within the Alpine market, notably within the tech industry
Experience in a first line sales leader role and having worked in a people leadership position is required
Passionate relationship building and executive level negotiating skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with functional peers across functions including Channel, Marketing, Sales Operations, System Engineering, Services Customer Support, and Product Development.
Experience as a successful Regional Sales Director with a track record of exceeding assigned sales quotas in the Alpine region
Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.
Strong understanding of Cybersecurity technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace is advantageous.
Demonstrated experience working with Sales organizations and technical teams.
A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees.
Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.
Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Excellent communications and presentation skills.
Written and spoken fluency in German and English.
Bonus:
#LI-FW1
#LI-Remote
Benefits of Working at CrowdStrike:
Market leader in compensation and equity awards
Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
Paid parental and adoption leaves
Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe
CrowdStrike is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed. We support veterans and individuals with disabilities through our affirmative action program.
CrowdStrike is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, status with regard to public assistance, or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions--including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, return from lay-off, terminations and social/recreational programs--on valid job requirements.
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